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Fig. 3 | BMC Medical Research Methodology

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From: Functional data analysis to characterize disease patterns in frequent longitudinal data: application to bacterial vaginal microbiota patterns using weekly Nugent scores and identification of pattern-specific risk factors

Fig. 3

Clustering results of Algorithm 1. These figures show the four classes (Class 1 to Class 4: top to bottom panels) obtained by our extended FDA clustering method (Algorithm 1) described in the “Functional data clustering algorithm using FPC [4]” section using the weekly Nugent scores over 2 years. Two data features were used: the small neighborhood proportions as in Ferraty & Vieu’s method and the first FPC

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BMC Medical Research Methodology

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